Constructing Fragility: Diane Severin Nguyen at the CAMH
On view at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston from Oct. 28 through Feb. 26, 2023, If Revolution Is a Sickness centers around a video of the same name.
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On Fascination, Form, and Future: David-Jeremiah at HMAAC
Reference to these machines is a common thread across the majority of David-Jeremiah: Early Career Survey, on view at HMAAC through Sept. 10, 2022.
The South’s Got Something to Say: Dirty South at CAMH
First opened at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and on view at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston (CAMH) through Feb. 6, 2022, The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse is a survey of Southern art that shies away from nothing.
On Utopia, Galvanization, and Interstellar Travel: Cauleen Smith: We Already Have What We Need at CAMH
“My pathology is your profit,” a banner reads. Hanging from the rafters of the Contemporary Art Museum Houston’s main gallery, the silvery background glimmers as the text picks up the purplish hue of the light.
Explosions + Reverberations: CounterCurrent 2020
Since 2014, Houston has been host to a citywide takeover. For one week in April, the city itself is activated as a site for art, creativity, social consciousness, and dialogue as the CounterCurrent festival and its artists spread throughout the inner loop to hold a series of provocative performances.
Reunited Lovers & Maritime Allies: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin on Louisiana’s Queer History
For artists Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin, putting up plaques and statues or writing books are still absolutely necessary, but still they see many opportunities to let queer folk “be super queer in how they honor and preserve these histories.”
A Rear-View Mirror on Humanity: FotoFest Explores African Cosmologies
Photography, as with many aspects of Western culture, comes loaded with a eurocentric canon that shapes the everyday perspective and expectations of the field.
Show Up: Amber Eagle at Galveston Arts Center
Monja Coronada (“crowned nun”) paintings are portraits of nuns completed either at the profession of their vows or upon their deaths.
Hypnotized by the Highway with Will Boone at the CAMH
Boone, gearing up for his solo exhibition at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Highway Hex (Nov. 9-Feb. 17), has concocted a body of work inspired in its way by both Leatherface and Stanley Kubrick.
A Theater of Objects, Ideas and Ideals: Glass Half Full Theatre in Austin
Human-induced climate change, denied by certain politicians and often ignored by many, is a threat to every species on the planet.
REVIEW: ‘Stonewall 50’ at the CAMH
In late June of 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a prominent gay bar in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. This raid sparked a series of demonstrations by an outraged, oppressed community, often referred to as the Stonewall Riots or Stonewall Uprising, that are seen as the precursor to the Gay liberation movement and the continued fight for LGBT rights.
Disappearing into California Conceptualism at The Modern
In 1971, artist Chris Burden vanished for three days. No one knew where he had gone, and for those three days the artist questioned his own existence and what his disappearance meant.